The man Sam had seen leaving woozily sat in the driving seat, tears streaming from his eyes and blood pouring from a gash on his head.

Lucy, on her knees, a guttural roar of anguish piercing the night sky.

And Jamie’s body, lying broken and motionless in the road.

That moment changed everything.

Consumed by grief and guilt, Sam spiralled, and despite her best efforts to bring him back, Lucy walked away from him after six months. The strength of her love for him made it impossible to stay, watching him torture himself for not doing the right thing for their son. When the driver, Miles Hillock, was given a short sentence and released early, Sam caved to his sadness.

The injustice for his son’s death was too much to bear.

In his weakest moment, Sam was moments away from taking his own life, only for a fortunate visit from his commanding officer, Sergeant Carl Marsden, to bring him back from the brink.

Sam couldn’t rewrite the past, nor could he bring Jamie back, but he could put some things right. Sam returned to the Metropolitan Police, applying for a position in the archives, and soon, he was scouring for criminals who beat the system. The people who were never bought to justice.

Sometimes the law was not enough.

Sam’s fight against injustice went further than he could have imagined. A perceived terrorist attack at the London Marathon led to Sam bringing down one of the most feared criminals in London, along with uncovering ties to numerous high-ranking police officers.

All of them were now dead.

In the hunt for a missing girl, Sam toppled the Kovalenko human trafficking empire, saving four teenage girls destined for a horrific life of sex slavery. With the help of his former comrade, Paul Etheridge, Sam ventured to Ukraine, burning down the last of the operation and putting the head of the Kovalenko family in the ground.

The echoes of his past soon resurfaced as Project Hailstorm, now named Blackridge, hunted his former mentor across Europe, a chase which Sam won but ultimately cost Marsden his life. Exposing the truth of the horrors that General Wallace had sewn across the world, with Etheridge’s help, Sam, along with a rebellious Blackridge operative called Alex Stone, fought back.

Sam hadn’t been saving the world. He’d been assassinating targets for one of the biggest global terrorist units in history. In his quest to end Wallace’s tyrannical reign for good, Sam was imprisoned, sentenced to life in a maximum-security prison. Wallace had abducted DI Amara Singh, a plucky detective who Sam had heartbreakingly fallen for. To save her, Sam had killed Wallace and her captor and sacrificed his freedom.